Episode 5 | Universal Salvation & Early Christianity

Update: 2022-10-06

Description

In this episode, Xavier breaks down why some of the earliest and most prominent Christian intellectuals espoused universal salvation. Universalism is a fascinating theodicy in terms of Hell, because it rules out eternal damnation and creating people destined for eternal punishment or at least annihilation and is a relevant concept in terms of comparative religion and the development of Christian theology.

Also, a slight correction is needed: I misspoke in saying that Dr. John Dominic Crossan dates The Gospel of Peter to 50 AD. He believes that the passion narrative in Peter serves as the basis for the passion narrative in the canonical gospels and is a separate source predating all five documents, but does not necessarily date the gospel to that date.

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Sources/Suggested Reading:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CjSy9CWEeU

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/40211991.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3A6e7d8a377010492d6aeea82d57517d91&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&origin=search-results

http://gnosis.org/library/actjohn.htm

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Peter%203&version=NASB

http://gnosis.org/library/gospete.htm

https://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/jts/032_270.pdf

https://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/sib/sib04.htm

https://pure.rug.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/3791969/c5.pdf

https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/actsthomas.html

https://www.namb.net/apologetics/resource/the-gospel-of-peter/